Change one letter in the word above (7 LETTERS)

I was so proud of lieders I didn't want to check to make sure.

realism

Translating plurality between languages isn't always obvious.
"Chicken" in English we generally don't mind pluralizing as "chickens."

But things get more complicated if you acknowledge its derivation from the German Küchlein. The problem arises in the German pluralization of the genitive Küchleins not by adding an s, but by removing one as Küchlein Given that English is largely derived from German and sometimes we add an s to create the plural and sometimes remove one, we consequently don't have clear unambiguous rules. But English tradition more commonly adds the s to form the plural even if one has already been removed for the same purpose in another language.

When speaking between English and German speakers a frequent point of confusion is in talking about cats. Cat in German is Katze, which sounds the same as "cats," so Germans are often inclined to pluralize it in English as catses.

mineral

numeral

numbers

One of my favorite Mahler pieces is Das lied Von der erde, so I knew in the back of my mind that lied was singular and lieder was plural. These 7 letters words are so challenging that when you finally solve one it's exciting, and it's easy to overlook mistakes.

burdens

subtend

bursted

bluster

Stubble

bubbles

baubles

Babbles

dabbles

barbels

Slobber

Lobster

Holster